I Scottish Screen and the UK Film Council are to showcase Scotland‘s most dramatic locations to US execs behind such big budget productions as Children of Men and Pirates of the
I The annual Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival has announced Jimmy Carr. Dame Edna Everage and Frankie Boyle as headliners for next year‘s festival which runs from 6—23 March. Others scheduled to appear include Janey Godley. Andy Parsons. Rich Hall and Craig Hill. For more information see www.gIasgowcomedyfestival.com
is up for four gongs, Wickerman three, Connect two and Live at Loch Lomond one. Isle of Skye also received a nod in the Fan Friendly category. The awards are voted for by the public and voting closes on Sunday 28 October. Make your vote count by visiting
Caribbean to encourage them to www.festivalawards.com
invest in the country. Recent productions shot in Scotland include Edinburgh-set Hal/am Foe, Seachd — The Inaccessible Pinnacle and blockbuster Stardust, in which Skye doubled as the magical kingdom of Stormhold.
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Oscar nomination continues to cause controversy. The film’s producer resigned from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts earlier this month when the academy announced they would not be putting forward the film for an Oscar. Edinburgh-born producer, Christopher Young said the decision to ignore Seachd - the lnaccessib/e Pinnacle was ‘explicitly anti- Gaelic’. The matter has now been raised at the Scottish Parliament, with support arriving from around the globe.
The controversy has even been turned into a retail drive by one
I The Scottish International Storytelling Festival will launch on Friday 26 October with a festival lecture from acclaimed Scottish writer and Africa enthusiast
I Six Scottish festivals have been Alexander McCall Smith. This nominated for accolades at the UK year‘s theme is Out of Eden:
enterprising Edinburgh business, which is selling specially designed T- Festival Awards 2007. T in the Scotland and Africa. The festival shirts carrying a message in Gaelic, with the first letter of each line spelling Park. which has picked up the will run until Sunday 4 November. out Bafta. Simon Miller, director of Seachd — The Inaccessible Pinnacle, Best Major Festival gong for the
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I A signed _ first edition f"“‘*. of JK J Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is to go under the hammer at Christie‘s on Thursday 25 October. The auction will showcase such famous 20th century authors as Rowling, DH Lawrence, Ian Fleming and Sir
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